Takemitsu: My Way of Life

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Seiji Ozawa: Anniversary

Label:

Decca

Catalogue No:

4782358

Discs:

11

Release date:

2nd Aug 2010

Barcode:

0028947823582

Length:

11 hours 47 minutes

Medium:

CD
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Seiji Ozawa: Anniversary


Bach, J S:

Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565

transcription: Leopold Stokowski

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6

transcription: Anton Webern

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004: Chaconne

transcription: Hideo Saito

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Canonic Variations on the Christmas Hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her', BWV769

arr. Igor Stravinsky

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne'

transcription: Arnold Schoenberg

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Bartók:

Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, BB 114, Sz. 106

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123, Sz.116

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Berlioz:

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Love Scene

San Francisco Symphony

Bernstein:

West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

San Francisco Symphony

Mahler:

Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) & Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Poulenc:

Gloria

Kathleen Battle (soprano)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani

Simon Preston (organ)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Concert champêtre

Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Prokofiev:

Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - excerpts

San Francisco Symphony

Ravel:

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Rimsky Korsakov:

Scheherazade, Op. 35

Wiener Philharmoniker

Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

Wiener Philharmoniker

Strauss, R:

Fanfare für Wiener Philharmoniker, Op. 109

Wiener Philharmoniker

Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

Wiener Philharmoniker

Takemitsu:

Ceremonial, An Autumn Ode

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Family Tree

Saito Kinen Orchestra

My Way of Life

Dwayne Croft (baritone)

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Requiem for string orchestra

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Air for flute

Aurèle Nicolet (flute)

Tchaikovsky:

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Berliner Philharmoniker

1812 Overture, Op. 49

Berliner Philharmoniker

Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

San Francisco Symphony

Wagner:

Der fliegende Holländer: Overture

Berliner Philharmoniker

Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1

Berliner Philharmoniker

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture

Berliner Philharmoniker

Tannhäuser: Overture

Berliner Philharmoniker

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod

Berliner Philharmoniker


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The 2nd of September 2010 marks Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s 75th birthday

This new 11-CD set presents Seiji Ozawa in a wide variety of symphonic repertory with the orchestra’s with which he has been most closely associated since the early 1970s – from the San Francisco Symphony in 1972 in a programme of music centred round Romeo and Juliet, through his twenty-nine years at the Boston Symphony, to the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics and the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan – a celebration of a truly international Maestro.

Booklet includes an appreciation of Seiji Ozawa by recording producer Dominic Fyfe.

Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106

play1. Andante tranquillo

play2. Allegro

play3. Adagio

play4. Allegro molto

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116

play1. Introduzione (Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace

play2. Giuoco della coppie (Allegretto scherzando)

play3. Elegia (Andante, non troppo)

play4. Intermezzo interrotto (Allegretto)

play5. Finale (Pesante - Presto)

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

play1. Rêveries. Passions (Largo - Allegro agitato ed appassionato assai)

play2. Un bal (Valse: Allegro non troppo)

play3. Scène aux champs (Adagio)

play4. Marche au supplice (Allegretto non troppo)

play5. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat (Larghetto - Allegro - Ronde du Sabbat: Poco meno mosso)

Maurice Ravel: Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

playPavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

Toru Takemitsu: Ceremonial -An Autumn Ode- for orchestra with sho

playCeremonial -An Autumn Ode- for orchestra with sho

Toru Takemitsu: Family Tree -Musical Verses for Young People- for narrator and orchestra - Poems Translated by William I. Elliott & Kazuo Kawamura

playOnce Upon a Time

playGrandpa

playGrandma

playDad

playMom

playA Distant Place

Toru Takemitsu: My Way of Life -In Memory fo Michael Vyner_ - original version

playI was once asked to write about "my way of life".

playTo a discerning eye

playA human being has its own way of life

playIt is not time that passes on

Toru Takemitsu: Requiem pour orchestre à cordes

playRequiem pour orchestre à cordes

Toru Takemitsu: Air for flute solo

playAir for flute solo

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C minor - "Resurrection"

play1. Allegro maestoso. Mit durchaus ernstem und feierlichem Ausdruck

play2. Andante moderato. Sehr gemächlich

play3. Scherzo: In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

play4. "O Röschen rot! Der Mensch liegt in grösster Not!" (Sehr feierlich aber schlicht) Text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn: "Urlicht"

play5a. Im Tempo des Scherzos. Wild herausfahrend -

play5b. Maestoso. Sehr zurückhaltend - Wieder zurückhaltend -

play5c. Sehr langsam und gedehnt -

play5d. "Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n wirst du" (Langsam. Misterioso) - Text after F.G. Klopstock: "Auferstehung"

play5e. "O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube" (Etwas bewegter) Text after F.G. Klopstock: "Auferstehung"

Johann Sebastian Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV 769 - Arr. Igor Stravinsky " Choral variations on..."

playChoral

playVar.I: In canone all'ottava

playVar.II: Alio modo in canone alle quinta

playVar.III: In canone alla settima

playVar.IV: In canone all'ottava per augmentationem

playVar.V: L'altra sorte del canone al rovescio

Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - Transcription: Leopold Stokowski

playToccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - Transcription: Leopold Stokowski

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci

playFuga (Ricercata) a 6 voci

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita for Violin Solo No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 - Transcription: Hideo Saito

playChaconne

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 - Transcription: Arnold Schoenberg

playPrelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 - Transcription: Arnold Schoenberg

Francis Poulenc: Gloria

play1. Gloria

play2. Laudamus te

play3. Domine Deus

play4. Domini Fili Unigenite

play5. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei

play6. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

Francis Poulenc: Concerto for organ, strings and percussion in G minor

playAndante

playSubito andante moderato

playTempo allegro, molto agitato

Francis Poulenc: Concert Champêtre

playAllegro molto

playAndante

playFinale

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35

playThe Sea and Sinbad's Ship

playThe Story of the Calender Prince

playThe Young Prince and the Young Princess

playFestival at Bagdad - The Sea - The Shipwreck against a rock surmounted by a bronze warrior (The Shipwreck)

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival, Overture, Op.36

playRussian Easter Festival, Overture, Op.36

Richard Strauss: Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare

playWiener Philharmoniker Fanfare

Richard Strauss: Alpensymphonie, Op.64

playNacht

playSonnenaufgang

playDer Anstieg

playEintritt in den Wald

playWanderung neben dem Bache

playAm Wasserfall

playErscheinung

playAuf blumige Wiesen

playAuf der Alm

playDurch Dickicht und Gestrüpp auf Irrwegen

playAuf dem Gletscher

playGefahrvolle Augenblicke

playAuf dem Gipfel

playVision

playNebel steigen auf

playDie Sonne verdüstert sich allmählich

playElegie

playStille vor dem Sturm

playGewitter und Sturm, Abstieg

playSonnenuntergang

playAusklang

playNacht

Richard Strauss: Feierlicher Einzug (Einzug der Ritter des Johanniterordens), 1909

playFeierlicher Einzug (Einzug der Ritter des Johanniterordens), 1909

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64

play1. Andante - Allegro con anima

play2. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza - Moderato con anima

play3. Valse (Allegro moderato)

play4. Finale (Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Ouverture solennelle "1812," Op.49

playLargo - Allegro giusto

Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

playOverture

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin

playPrelude to Act I

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

playDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Tannhäuser

playOverture

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

playPrelude to Act 1. Langsam und smachtend

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Concert version - Act 3

playLiebestod

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture

playAndante non tanto quasi Moderato - Allegro giusto - Moderato assai

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ballet Suite, Op.64a, No.2

play1. The Montagues and the Capulets

play4. Dance

play7. Romeo at Juliet's Grave

play6. Dance of the Maids from the Antilles

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Ballet Suite, Op.64a, No.1

play7. Death of Tybalt

Hector Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op.17 / Part 3

playScène d'amour

Leonard Bernstein: "West Side Story" - Symphonic Dances

play1. Prologue

play2. Somewhere

play3. Scherzo

play4. Mambo

play5. Cha-cha

play6. Meeting Scene

play7. Cool Fugue

play8. Rumble

play9. Finale

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